Mi'ihen Highroad

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This is a statue of Lord Mi'ihen. Eight centuries ago, he founded a legion known today as the Crusaders. In just a few short years after their founding, their ranks grew throughout Spira. The maesters of Yevon feared an uprising and accused them of rebellion. So Lord Mi'ihen walked along this very road to go face their charges and refute them. He succeeded in winning the maesters' trust, and his legion became an arm of the Yevon clergy.

—Maechen

Mi'ihen Highroad is a road between the city of Luca and Mushroom Rock Road, in Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2. Mi'ihen Highroad is a dirt roadway on wide open plains. Ruins lie along the sides while the path leads through canyons, sea and mountain cliffs before leading to Mushroom Rock.

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The road was named for Lord Mi'ihen, the founder of the Crusaders, then called the Crimson Blades, who walked down the old path on his way to Bevelle to answer the challenge that his group was a threat to Yevon. It is called a Highroad because of both its altitude in relation to Luca, and because Mi'ihen walked the "Highroad" when he decided to face the Maesters of Yevon instead of antagonizing them.

Five hundred years ago the highroad was destroyed by Sin, and a new highroad constructed to its place. The old highroad became known as the "old road".

Some time before the events of Final Fantasy X, in the place of the Travel Agency, there was a manor where an elderly couple lived caring for their flower. At some point they were killed by a female servant for gil.

At the time before the Eternal Calm, the highroad is home to many fiends. People who need to cross the highroad generally travel by chocobo, as it is safer than dealing with the fiends. Even the chocobos are not entirely immune to the fiend activity, as the Chocobo Eater roams the area. Yuna and her guardians defeat this monster on their way through. While staying at Rin's Travel Agency, Yuna makes a sphere recording to leave to her guardians to view after she has gone through with the Final Summoning, but Tidus interrupts her, and the two sit outside in the sunset and talk for a bit.

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With Sin vanquished, the highroad becomes home to Iron Giants from the Thunder Plains and large, carnivorous birds. Travel by chocobo has been strayed from, with hovercrafts taking their place. The road is now covered in Al Bhedmachina, used as a defense mechanism against the fiend population.

At some point, a fiend individual, Purpurea, created from the spirit of a flower decides to punish the now elderly woman who killed its master and his wife, but seeing the woman's grief and sadness over the act she did years ago, the Purpurea decides not to punish her and depart to the Farplane to join its master.

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In Final Fantasy X, "Mi'ihen Highroad" is the location theme on the Highroad. It was composed by Nobuo Uematsu. "Chocobo Jam" plays when riding a chocobo on the Highroad. "They May Pass" plays at the end of the Highroad, when Seymour appears and gives the party permission to pass the roadblock.

In Final Fantasy X-2, "Mi'ihen Highroad" is an entirely new composition that acts as the Highroad's theme. The theme "Chocobo" plays while riding a chocobo on the Highroad and during the Chapter 2 mission, "Cuckoo for Chocobos!".